Futuh al-Haramayn

Futuh al-Haramayn (a Handbook for Pilgrims to Mecca and Medina) is considered the first Islamic guidebook for pilgrimage.^[1] It was written by Muhi al-Din Lari and completed in India in 1505–6. The book was dedicated to Muzaffar ibn Mahmudshah, the ruler of Gujarat. No early illustrated Indian copies are known, but later in the 16th century it was widely copied in Ottoman Turkey. The book describes the full rituals of the Hajj in order, and describes the religious sites one can visit.^[2][3]

More than twenty manuscripts of the Futuh are known to exist.^[4]

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  Page from one of the earliest known manuscripts of Futuh al-Haramayn, dated 1548 and probably made in Gujarat. National Museum, New Delhi
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  Miniature with view of the Masjid al-Haram from the manuscript of Futuh al-Haramayn made for sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, c. 1550. Topkapı Saray Museum
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  Mount Arafat. From the manuscript of Futuh al-Haramayn made in Mecca in 1595. Chester Beatty Library
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  1678年にビジャープル・スルタン国で制作された『フトゥフ・アル＝ハラマイン』写本の装飾扉絵。メトロポリタン美術館所蔵。